Claude AI To Process Secret Government Data Through New Palantir Deal 14
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Anthropic has announced a partnership with Palantir and Amazon Web Services to bring its Claude AI models to unspecified US intelligence and defense agencies. Claude, a family of AI language models similar to those that power ChatGPT, will work within Palantir's platform using AWS hosting to process and analyze data. But some critics have called out the deal as contradictory to Anthropic's widely-publicized "AI safety" aims. On X, former Google co-head of AI ethics Timnit Gebru wrote of Anthropic's new deal with Palantir, "Look at how they care so much about 'existential risks to humanity.'"
The partnership makes Claude available within Palantir's Impact Level 6 environment (IL6), a defense-accredited system that handles data critical to national security up to the "secret" classification level. This move follows a broader trend of AI companies seeking defense contracts, with Meta offering its Llama models to defense partners and OpenAI pursuing closer ties with the Defense Department. In a press release, the companies outlined three main tasks for Claude in defense and intelligence settings: performing operations on large volumes of complex data at high speeds, identifying patterns and trends within that data, and streamlining document review and preparation.
While the partnership announcement suggests broad potential for AI-powered intelligence analysis, it states that human officials will retain their decision-making authority in these operations. As a reference point for the technology's capabilities, Palantir reported that one (unnamed) American insurance company used 78 AI agents powered by their platform and Claude to reduce an underwriting process from two weeks to three hours. The new collaboration builds on Anthropic's earlier integration of Claude into AWS GovCloud, a service built for government cloud computing. Anthropic, which recently began operations in Europe, has been seeking funding at a valuation up to $40 billion. The company has raised $7.6 billion, with Amazon as its primary investor.
The partnership makes Claude available within Palantir's Impact Level 6 environment (IL6), a defense-accredited system that handles data critical to national security up to the "secret" classification level. This move follows a broader trend of AI companies seeking defense contracts, with Meta offering its Llama models to defense partners and OpenAI pursuing closer ties with the Defense Department. In a press release, the companies outlined three main tasks for Claude in defense and intelligence settings: performing operations on large volumes of complex data at high speeds, identifying patterns and trends within that data, and streamlining document review and preparation.
While the partnership announcement suggests broad potential for AI-powered intelligence analysis, it states that human officials will retain their decision-making authority in these operations. As a reference point for the technology's capabilities, Palantir reported that one (unnamed) American insurance company used 78 AI agents powered by their platform and Claude to reduce an underwriting process from two weeks to three hours. The new collaboration builds on Anthropic's earlier integration of Claude into AWS GovCloud, a service built for government cloud computing. Anthropic, which recently began operations in Europe, has been seeking funding at a valuation up to $40 billion. The company has raised $7.6 billion, with Amazon as its primary investor.
Forget Big Brother... (Score:3)
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Plantir will do better with Trump.
The stock price is up 35% since election day.
These things are not mutually exclusive. (Score:2)
Peter Thiel founded this company after 9/11 to "fight terrorism". He's a married, gay, Republican Christian. [wikipedia.org] Hypocrisy is his lifeblood.
There's a TV show about this. (Score:2)
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I wonder which American insurance company? (Score:2)
Enhanced surveillance (Score:3)
We frequently see in the movies where some government police agency has screens full of hoovered-up surveillance, and some techie whiz quickly zeroes in on whatever anyone wants to see. These powerful AI agents will be able to sift through all of it and proactively display what they infer what you want be aware of. All cellphone traffic, internet scrapes, online cameras. Databases of license plate reads and facial recognitions. "Who and where are all the people presently criticizing Trump?" could be a query some day soon.
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"Who and where are all the people presently criticizing Trump?"
I think AI agent will suffer an overload with this query. It'd be easier to find all of the people not criticizing Trump and then extrapolate from there.
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Just wait. His Department of Homeland Security will be putting people on no-fly lists, flag journalists for harassment, and implement a social score similar to China.
"Claude"? (Score:2)
Freedom isn't free (Score:1)